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ABYSSAL Pedro F Neto & João Baptista
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Student Hunger: A Silent Crisis Jane Dyson & Kate Jessop
Örö Rob St John
Droughtlands Anjali Jayakumar, Omkar Khandagale & Aditya Thakkar
2021 Program
Healing Fire Yanama budyari gumada research collective
A Millennia of Seepage Amelia Hine
Workers Jay Gearing & Ben Rogaly
Spirit Jane Dyson & Ross Harrison
Nadirah: Coal Woman Negar Elodie Behzadi & Kate Jessop
Withering Refuge Pedro F Neto
Tidal Choreography Gina Moore & Michele Lobo
Posthuman Landscapes Candice Boyd & Elizabeth Straughan
Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste Lisa Palmer & Susanna Barnes
Water at the Margins Maria Rusca
Drum Village Primary School Vickie Zhang
Losing Ground Holding Place Iqbal Barkat, Richie Howitt, Kath McLachlan, Garima Misra, Nathan Moulds, Phillip Osborne & Matalena Tofa
Restoring the Spirit Lisa Palmer
ABYSSAL Pedro F Neto & João Baptista
Beyond the Dam's Reservoir W. Nathan Green & Polen Ly
Student Hunger: A Silent Crisis Jane Dyson & Kate Jessop
Örö Rob St John
Droughtlands Anjali Jayakumar, Omkar Khandagale & Aditya Thakkar
2021 Program
PLACE, LABOUR AND BELONGING
Healing Fire Yanama budyari gumada research collective
A Millennia of Seepage Amelia Hine
Workers Jay Gearing & Ben Rogaly
Spirit Jane Dyson & Ross Harrison
Nadirah: Coal Woman Negar Elodie Behzadi & Kate Jessop
Withering Refuge Pedro F Neto
Tidal Choreography Gina Moore & Michele Lobo
Posthuman Landscapes Candice Boyd & Elizabeth Straughan
Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste Lisa Palmer & Susanna Barnes
Water at the Margins Maria Rusca
Drum Village Primary School Vickie Zhang
Losing Ground Holding Place Iqbal Barkat, Richie Howitt, Kath McLachlan, Garima Misra, Nathan Moulds, Phillip Osborne & Matalena Tofa
IAG Film Shorts is a screening event showcasing films made by geographers.
Workers
Jay Gearing & Ben Rogaly
In Workers, ten individuals give personal and sometimes moving accounts of warehouse and food factory work, and reflect on their creative lives within and beyond the workplace. Their stories reveal some of the harsh employment conditions in contemporary capitalist workplaces in these sectors, and confirm the power inequalities inherent in them. Taken together, the films evoke a story of how workplace experiences have changed over a forty-year period with intensified pressure on agency workers in warehouses through higher productivity targets, longer distances to cover each day, and computerised policing of breaks. Using multiple and varied narratives, the ten chapters of the film disrupt taken-for-granted and common sense categories often used to stereotype people such as ‘factory workers’, ‘warehouse workers’ or ‘migrants’. It is hoped that the solidarity to be found in this can contribute to challenging oppressive workplace conditions.
Jay Gearing is an independent film-maker based in Peterborough under the guise of Red 7 Productions. He directed and co-produced Workers.
Ben Rogaly teaches in the Department of Geography at the University of Sussex, UK. He researched and co-produced Workers.
Ben Rogaly teaches in the Department of Geography at the University of Sussex, UK. He researched and co-produced Workers.